I worked at a bookstore that used win95 on their server for the register system. Up until 2008. Worse part is because their POS system ran on DOS. And it's not like they didn't take in tons of money

>dat feel when your whole store's computer system goes down 3 days before Xmas.

Windows XP on all the points of sale and workstations, NT4 on the server. Dot matrix printers used for half the report printouts.

>>19493427
company laptops still shipping with XP 64bit, even tho win7 64 bit sweeps the floor with it

>>19493469
I know that feel.
>work at bowling alley
>registers running windows 95
>all their software is 3.1
>keyboards are qwerty with commands printed on the keys
>office computers running window NT
>takes hours to transmit reports to the national office
>dat dial up network
>replaced the system in 2008
>the entire system is now in my basement where it belongs

We still use CentOS on our web servers at work :\

>>19493603
>mfw half of 4chan isn't old enough to know wtf is going on here

>>19493530
Dot Matrix printers make delicious sounds though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is-HVxmUELQ&feature=related

Seriously though, I haven't dealt that much with antiquity: I work as a store butcher, and a knife is a knife is a knife.

A meat-saw is a meat-saw is a meat-saw.
(I think the carpenters call it a band saw. It was invented by a butcher who called it a meat saw, so fuck you carpenters.)

I mean, sure, I deal with 15 year old gear all the time, but industrial means that it will last with proper maintenance. It's not antiquated until it catches fire and/or kills someone.

>That feel when i find my mom's 18th birth day recorded on VHS and i dont have a player

>>19493730
>That feel when you can find most old porn online

>>19493730
professional shops will convert it to digital data for you

>>19493730
>vhs

Holy fuck is your mom like 30?
You must be like 15 years old.

>>19493730
post it to the internet dude, that sounds hot as fuck

>>19493730
You can go to a charity reseller and get a player for $5.

>>19493755
>thinks VHS didn't exist before 1996

There's an old ass minicomputer down the bottom of where I work

Apparently runs 24/7 doing whoknowswhatfuckingthings
I'd love to take it home but I can't be assed getting a truck and they[the ones responsible] say they need it for "something"

They won't even let me go near it

>>19493635

>MFW 90% of 4 chan is too young/stupid to recognise an acoustic coupler

Don't truckers get payed well? Why the fuck they still using payphones?

>>19493870

>mfw you looked it up

lol truckers don't use payphones anymore, most of them have those beep beep Motorola phones

>>19493849
Honeypot? I've seen old RS-2000's still doing this shit. Fuck, Madoff's whole scam system was run on ancient early 80's IBMs I think.

>>19493469
I don't suppose you guys used BITS(Book Inventory Tracking System)?

>>19493530
Because inkjet and laser can't do form printing.

>>19493944
I used to work as a yard manager for a trucking company. Every one I ever dealt with had a smart phone and a bluetooth device constantly glued to the sides of their heads. It's usually only retarded niggers that worked for shit carriers that didn't have cellphones.

The National Weather Service used IBM XTs up to 2006.

>>19493427
Sounds like he was bitching someone out that he didn't want to have his number.

No today their is no excuse since you can get the cheapest cell phones for like $10.

>>19493930
There was an email with a video of one of these making the rounds a few months back.

To nobody's great surprise, Linux ran it perfectly.

>>19493907
That's what I was getting at.

>>19493944
I can't tell if you're trolling, or 12.

4:3 aspect ratio LCD's everywhere in the office. nothing overly ancient, just makes me mad.

>>19494064
That's a good guess, but I've never overhead a trucker on a payphone be anything but congenial with a pen and paper taking down numbers.

>>19494126
Why so butthurt?

>>19494232
cause
>4:3 ratio
>2011

so I just brought in my own 16:9 screen to the office.

>>19494341
HURR DURR IT'S OLD SO IT SUCKS!

>>19494341
>assburgers detected

Why would you care? Just do your job and go home. It's not like you're there for more than 8 hours anyway.

>>19493755
Mus be. My mom had her 18th birthday before VHS existed.

>>19494405
coding, I might be there for 8, maybe 12 hours. if they're gonna give me a fucking 1280x1024 4:3 monitor to code with, they better not expect any fucking results.

so... all in all, I just took one of my extra 16:9s to work.

>>19494430
I bet you didn't bitch back when 4:3 was the only aspect ratio.

>>19494446
bet you didn't bitch back when windows 95 was new

>>19494452
Didn't use it. Went straight from Windows 3.11 to 98.

>>19494430
Oh, wah. You ought to be forced to work on a 286 PC for one day as penance.

>>19494430
Seriously, you prefer 16:9 monitor to a 4:3?

Why didnt you get 2 or 3 4:3's, thats much better.

>>19494517
The widescreen lets you view code-trees etc. with punitive ease.

Also, more screen real estate

Wally: This is just great. Us engineers are stuck using old IBM 286s while you have a SPARC workstation. Correct me if I'm wrong, but all you know how to do is stare at the screensaver.

Pointy haired boss: How does that ball bounce around the screen?

Wally: If anyone needs me, I'll be scrolling some text.

>>19494126
Fucking hell, I want one of those for retro gaming. It's hard as fuck to find any with a decent response time for less than 1k.

>>19494578
Most 4:3 LCDs used shitty panels because the technology was immature at the time.

>>19493608
4/5 trolling, i almost raged. I wish....

>>19494578
get a flat 17" CRT and THEN you have fucking GAYEMING

>>19494591
I never liked flat CRTs.

>>19494597
why would you consider a 4:3 17" LCD better than a CRT with the exact same dimensions?

The first practical VHS camcorder was released ca. 1978. So the mother in question could have been born as early as 1960.

>>19494591
I don't want eye cancer though. My eyes are bad enough as is.

>>19494541
Then you should have gotten a 16:10 monitor.

Same horizontal real estate with added vertical space.

>>19493907
Because cellphones don't get reception in many places truckers go through, and using a cellphone while driving a semi truck is a federal offense and tantamount to manslaughter 3 if you even bump someone's bumper.

>>19494620
just use 100Hz. if you're gonna game on a 4:3 LCD from like 2006, you really don't know much. first off, you're gonna have vertical sync in the way that will cap your FPS at the refresh rate (inb4 turn it off, doesn't matter, it's still gonna cap it at that, so you're just gonna get jittery movement when you increase the games' FPS over the refresh rate), slower response time, usually pretty terrible contrast etc

pic related, the best fucking CRT ever made for gaming

>>19494689
Yeah, I'd want a 4:3 LCD that doesn't suck. There are some, they're just ridiculously expensive.

I guess I can try a 100hz CRT, the one I had back in the day couldn't handle more than 75hz without a buzznoise. I'll consider it if I can find one over here in the Netherlands, thanks.

>>19494729
you can probably find one in the aftermarket, I'm from Europe and I got mine for $15 about 2 years ago. was $150 brand new in like 2005

>main print production computer has 64-bit win7
>main high volume printer uses solaris 5 print server with SPARC architecture
>xerox tecs in my store DAILY replacing parts

>>19494766
>xerox tecs in my store DAILY replacing parts
Do you have a prepaid maintenance contract?

>>19494902
yeppers. but i think we pay extra, because all the parts in that thing, it may as well be a new machine

>>19493427
That's funny, because there was no Solaris before Solaris 7.

>>19495186

Probably means SunOS 5.